. >> obama: well, i... >> kroft: in this administration? >> obama: i think everybody understands that hillary has been, you know, one of the most important advisors that i've had on a whole range of issues. hillary's capacity to travel around the world to lay the groundwork for a new way of doing things; to establish a sense of engagement that, you know, our foreign policy was not going to be defined solely by iraq; that we were going to be vigilant about terrorism, but we were going to make sure that we deployed all elements of american power-- diplomacy, our economic and cultural and social capital-- in order to bring about the kinds of international solutions that we wanted to see. i had confidence that hillary could do that. and, you know, one of the things that i will always be grateful for is... yeah, it wasn't just that she and i had to integrate. i mean, we had bob gates, who was a holdover from the bush administration, you know, leon panetta to take over the c.i.a., and so we had a lot of very strong personalities around the table.